Diabetic Foot and Exercise Therapy Article Summary

The main focus of this article is to show an improvement in preventing the risk factors of diabetic foot after weeks of exercise therapy. The article focuses on multiple diabetic complications and the role of exercise therapy in terms of improving conditions.  Exercise therapy is known to improve blood glucose and insulin sensitivity as well as weight loss. These are theorized to be factors in reducing the chances of developing neuropathy. The subclinical onset of neuropathy is usually more peripheral rather than central. Sensory nerves are detected before motor and autonomic nerves. Detecting minor nerve damage before full onset neuropathy can be difficult due to the fact that nerve conduction velocities do not significantly change early on all the time.